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The company is awaiting a decision from Icelandic officials on who owns the wreck and its contents.

The SS Minden left Brazil on September 6, 1939 - five days after the war broke out - and there were claims that officials from Banco Germanico, a subsidiary of German Dresdner bank, helped load its cargo.

The ship was sunk by its crew nearly three weeks later on September 24.

The crew was rescued by the HMS Dunedin and taken to a British naval base.